IDENTILIN$$  F107C08|EpEliz|CUL Add.8467,Leconfield|ff.104-106v./P:GAS,3-21-90,o,/C:T-LP,11Jun91
107.C08.HE1  %3An Epithalamion or mariage song%4
107.C08.HE2  /On the Ladie Elizabeth, and Count Palatine
107.C08.HE3  /being maried on S%5t%6. Valentines daie. [104]
107.C08.001  %3Haile%4 Bishop Valentine, whose daie this is,
107.C08.002  All the aire is thy Diocis,
107.C08.003  And all the cherping Querist%5res%6.
107.C08.004  And other birds are thy Parishoners.
107.C08.005  Thou mariest euerie yeere.
107.C08.006  The lirque lark, and the graue whispering doue,
107.C08.007  The sparrowe thatt neglects his life for loue,
107.C08.008  The houshold bird, with the red stomager,
107.C08.009  Thou makst the black bird, speed as soone
107.C08.010  As dooth the goldfinch, or the Halcyone,
107.C08.011  The housband Cock lookes out, and steight is sped. [CW:And]
107.C08.012  And meetes his wife, w%5ch%6 brings her fetherbed. [104v]
107.C08.013  This daie more cheerfullie, then euer shine
107.C08.014  This daie w%5ch%6 might inflame thy self, olde Valentine.
107.C08.015  %3Till now,%4 thou warmst, w%5th%6 multiplying loues
107.C08.016  Twoe larks, twoe sparrowes, or twoe doues.
107.C08.017  All that is nothing vnto this
107.C08.018  For thou this daie couplest twoe Phenixes,
107.C08.019  Thou makest a Taper see
107.C08.020  What the sunne neuer sawe, and what the Ark
107.C08.021  (W%5ch%6 was of foules, and beasts, the cage and parke)
107.C08.022  Did not conteine, one bed conteines, through thee
107.C08.023  Twoe Phoe%Lnixes, whose ioyned brests
107.C08.024  Are vnto one an other, mutuall nests,
107.C08.025  Where motion kindles such fiers, as shall giue
107.C08.026  Young Phoe%Lnixes, and yett the old shall liue.
107.C08.027  Whose loue and Courage neuer shall decline,
107.C08.028  Butt make the whole yeere throug>h< thy daie, O%C Valentine
107.C08.029  %3Vp then%4 faire Phoe%Lnix bride, frustrate the Sunne
107.C08.030  Thy self from thine affection
107.C08.031  Takst warmth enough, and fro%M thine eye.
107.C08.032  All lesser birds will take theire Iolletie,
107.C08.033  Vp, vp faire bride and call [CW:Thy]
107.C08.034  Thy starrs, from out theire seuerall boxes,'Take [105]
107.C08.035  Thy Rubies, Pearls, and Diamonds forth, and make
107.C08.036  Thy self a Constellation of them all,
107.C08.037  And by theire blazing, signifie
107.C08.038  That a great Princesse falls, butt dooth not dye;
107.C08.039  Bee thou a new starr, that to vs portends
107.C08.040  Ends of much wonder; And be thou those, Ends,
107.C08.041  Since thou dost this daie, in new glorie shine
107.C08.042  Maie all men date Records, from this thy Valentine.
107.C08.043  %3Come forth,%4 come forth, and as one glorious flame.
107.C08.044  Meeting an other growes the same,
107.C08.045  So meete thy Frederick, and soe
107.C08.046  To an vnseparable vnion goe,
107.C08.047  Since Separation
107.C08.048  Falls not on such things, as are infinite,
107.C08.049  Nor things, w%5ch%6 are butt one, can disvnite,
107.C08.050  You are twice inseparable, Great, and one;
107.C08.051  Goe then to where the Bishop staies,
107.C08.052  To make you one, his waye, which diuers waies
107.C08.053  Must be effected; And when all is past,
107.C08.054  And that you are one, by harts and hands made fast,
107.C08.055  You twoe haue %Yleft%Zone waie, >%^left<, your selues to Entwine [CW:Besides]
107.C08.056  Besides this Bishops knott, or Bishop Valentine. [105v]
107.C08.057  %3Butt oh,%4 what ailes the Sunne y%5t%6 heere he staies.
107.C08.058  Longer to daie then other daies,
107.C08.059  Staies he new light, from these to gett?
107.C08.060  And finding heere such store, is loath to sett:
107.C08.061  And why doe you twoe walke?
107.C08.062  So slowlie pacde' in this procession?
107.C08.063  Is all your care butt to bee lookd' vpon?
107.C08.064  And be to others spectacle and talke?
107.C08.065  The feast with glottonous delaies %Yis#eaten,%Z
107.C08.066  Is eaten, and to long theire meat they praise,
107.C08.067  The Maskers come to late, and I thinck will stay,
107.C08.068  Like |ff|airies, till the Cock crowe them awaie.
107.C08.069  Alas, did not Antiquitie assigne
107.C08.070  A night, as well as daie, To thee O Valentine?
107.C08.071  %3They did%4, and night is come; And yett we see
107.C08.072  Formalities retarding thee,
107.C08.073  What meane these Ladies, w%5ch%6 as though
107.C08.074  They were to take a clock in peeces, goe
107.C08.075  So nicelie about the bride;
107.C08.076  A Bride before a God night could be said,
107.C08.077  Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, [CW:As] 
107.C08.078  As soules from bodies steale, and are not spied'. [106]
107.C08.079  Butt now shee is laid; what though shee bee?
107.C08.080  Yett there are more delaies, for where is hee?
107.C08.081  Hee comes and passes through Spheare, after Spheare
107.C08.082  First her sheets, then hir armes, then anie where,
107.C08.083  Lett not then this daie, butt this night be thine
107.C08.084  Thy daie, was butt thy Eaue to this, O Valentine.
107.C08.085  %3Heere lyes%4 a shee Sunne, and a hee Moone >heere<.
107.C08.086  Shee giues the best light to his Spheare,
107.C08.087  Or each is bothe, And all, and so,
107.C08.088  They vnto one an other, nothing owe.
107.C08.089  And yett they doe, butt are
107.C08.090  So iust and ritch in that Coine, w%5ch%6 they paie,
107.C08.091  That neither would, nor needs forbeare, nor staie,
107.C08.092  Neither desires to be spar'd, nor to spare,
107.C08.093  They quicklie pay their debt, and then
107.C08.094  Take no acquittance, butt paie againe,
107.C08.095  They paie, they giue, they lend, and so lett fall
107.C08.096  No such occation to be liberall,
107.C08.097  More truth, more Courage, in these twoe doe shine
107.C08.098  Then all they Turtles haue, and sparrowes Vallentine.
107.C08.099  %3And by%4 this act of these twoe Phoe%Lnixes. [CW:Nature]
107.C08.100  Nature againe restored is, [106v]
107.C08.101  For since these twoe are twoe no more,
107.C08.102  There is butt one Phoe%Lnix still, as was before;
107.C08.103  Rest now att last, and wee
107.C08.104  (As Satyrs watch the Sunns vprise,) will staye
107.C08.105  Waiting when your eies opened, lett out daie.
107.C08.106  Onelie desir'd, because your face wee see,
107.C08.107  Others neere you, shall whispering speake
107.C08.108  And wagers laie, att w%5ch%6 side daie will breake,
107.C08.109  And wiselie obseruing then, whose hand itt is,
107.C08.110  That opens first a Curtaine, hers or his,
107.C08.111  This wilbe tryed, tomorrowe after nine,
107.C08.112  Till w%5ch%6 hower, wee thy daie enlarge, O%C Valentine.
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107.C08.0$$  Lines 2, 3, 5, 9 of each st ind; sts numbered in Arabic numerals in left M.